The staffing method used when units are staffed below maximum workload conditions and staff is then supplemented when needed is called:

A health care management continuum:

The United States recruits more internationally educated nurses (IENs) than any other country. The largest group of IENs in the United States is from:

The formal process of using patient data for providing evidence for the design of care protocols is termed:

An approach for decreasing nursing RN skill mix was implemented in a one size fits all approach across organizations in the 1990s. These changes in skill mix led to:

The staffing method used when units are staffed below maximum workload conditions and staff is then supplemented when needed is called:

A health care management continuum:

Which model of patient care is based on a strong philosophy of patient-centeredness?

An experienced critical care nurse left a CCU staff nurse position to finish a master’s degree. Periodically, he would return to work as a per diem nurse in the CCU. The staff was impressed with the nurse’s performance; however, one staff member complained that he was unfamiliar with the new telemetry monitors when he first returned to work several months ago. This comment showed up in his evaluation, resulting in a poorer overall evaluation from the nurse manager compared with previous evaluations. This is an example of:

The stage of group development where control issues arise and disputes or disagreements begin to emerge is the _____ stage.